City hits another snag in years-long effort to get a shoreline development plan &#8211; including sea walls &#8211; approved by the state

The plan also would impose controls to prevent new development in unstable areas.

Councilman David Roberts said that the city is focused on preserving the compromise between environmentalists and homeowners while addressing the concerns of Coastal Commission staff members.

“We want to keep the progress that we're making,” Roberts said. “We're trying to come up with a creative solution.”

The council's next discussion on the Local Coastal Program will be in September, Roberts said.

The citizens advisory committee was founded informally by former Mayor Doug Sheres and later was designated by the City Council as an ad hoc committee to work with city staff on the coastal planning. It originally included both David Winkler and Jon Corn, bluff-top homeowners; and Jim Jaffee and Dwight Worden, activists with the Surfrider Foundation and Cal Beach Advocates.

After the committee agreed to the compromise regarding sea walls in 2005, it became less active. Most of the members are no longer involved because “the lion's share of the substantive work was done,” Winkler said. He and Jaffee stayed on to work on minor revisions.

Jaffee said there has been some tension between himself and Winkler, but he declined to provide details.

“I think the spirit of the compromise is together, but we're no longer meeting together,” he said.

Jaffee did say he was willing to meet with city officials to deal with revisions to the application.

Winkler said the goal is to have the revisions finished by early next year.

“We'd all like to have it done,” Winkler said. “But I guess the reality is, we have to deal with the process involving a document that's going to have an impact on Solana Beach for the foreseeable future.

“It's a massive document, so I think it's more important to be deliberate and get it as right as we can.”